Harry Potter

Went to see the New HP last night. We arrived 45 minutes early to get a good seat, which we did; center screen, about halfway up. [sidebar: i think Tom Chung was there]. Anyway, after sitting through 45 minutes of slideshow advertisements and 15 minutes of commercials, [Inlcuding Fanta's fantasmo girls, which I swear reduces the intelligence of Americans simply by watching it] and in the middle of a horrible preview for some teen movie, the lights come up and the screen goes black.

Someone pulled the firealarm and everyone was ordered to leave the theater. The people who had the aweful seats on the front or on the side were eeager to leave but only after some prodding from officials were the freaks, like Mandee and Me, willing to leave our center screen seats.

Outside, people were so stupid leaving the theater that had it been a real fire, half the audience would have burned in the theater and the other half would have burned because they were standing next to the building. We fled the scene ASAP since there seemed little sense in sticking around for hundreds of people to do the same thing.